It's BUDDY AYDELETTE days until we get married

Offensive tackle Buddy Aydelette only played nine games for the Packers in one season, so why would I include him in this countdown? Well, it turns out he was actually a really good football player...except not for the Packers. Not even in the NFL, in fact.

The 1980's were a weird time in professional football. The AFL/NFL merger was barely a decade old, and the USFL was about to come onto the scene. When it did, in 1983, it poached some of the best young talent coming out of college in that era. Steve Young, Herschel Walker, and Reggie White all spent time in the USFL before heading to the NFL.

And that brings us to Budy Aydelette. The Packers drafted him in the seventh round in 1980, but he made barely a dent on the NFL. He stuck around for nine games, but never started, and the picture you see to the left is the only real evidence I could find that he'd ever played for the Packers at all, and that's a tiny, blurry picture.

But his unsuccessful time with the Packers notwithstanding, Aydelette wasn't done with football yet. He caught on with the Birmingham Stallions in 1983, and put together a terrific run. He made every possible all-league and all-star team available during his three years there.

Unfortunately, the USFL folded after the 1985 season, and that left Aydelette without a home. He made it back to the NFL in 1987, playing twelve games for the Steelers, including five starts. Aydelette was 31 at that time, and whatever success he found in the USFL didn't follow to the NFL. His career ended after just 21 total NFL games.

If history is written by the victors, then only NFL history really matters when it comes to professional football, so Aydelette's accomplishments in the USFL are all but lost. But they still happened, and even if they're only a footnote, he's still one of the more interesting Packers to wear number 62.